ultimate
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
- From Medieval Latin ultimātus (“furthest, last”), past participle of Latin ultimō, ultimāre (“to come to an end”), from ultimus (“last, final”). See ultra-.
- (ultimate frisbee): The sport was renamed to avoid the use of the Frisbee trademark.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
ultimate (not comparable)
- Final; last in a series.
- 1677, Robert Plot, “Of the Heavens and Air”, in The natural history of Oxford-shire: Being an Essay Toward the Natural History of England[1], page 15:
- […] they [the sounds of an echo] next strike the ultimate secondary object, then the penultimate and antepenultimate; […]
- (of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
- Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
- the ultimate pleasure
- the ultimate disappointment
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page vii:
- Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
- Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
- That will happen at some time; eventual.
- Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
- 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection
- those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict
- 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection
- Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
- an ultimate constituent of matter
SynonymsEdit
- (final): See Thesaurus:final
- (most extreme): utmost, uttermost
AntonymsEdit
- (w.r.t. causes): initial, original
- (most extreme): original, derivative
Coordinate termsEdit
- (adjectives denoting syllables): penultimate (last but one), antepenultimate (last but two), preantepenultimate (last but three), propreantepenultimate (last but four)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
final; last in a series
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last in a word or other utterance
greatest or maximum
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most distant
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eventual
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NounEdit
ultimate (countable and uncountable, plural ultimates)
- The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
- The final or most distant point; the conclusion
- The greatest extremity; the maximum
- (uncountable, sports) Ellipsis of ultimate frisbee/ultimate disc.
TranslationsEdit
the greatest extremity
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ultimate frisbee — see ultimate frisbee
VerbEdit
ultimate (third-person singular simple present ultimates, present participle ultimating, simple past and past participle ultimated)
- (transitive, archaic) To finish; to complete.
- 1869, The New-Jerusalem Magazine (volume 41, page 36)
- These measures have been carried forward with a zeal and unanimity that warrant the hope we entertain, of ultimating the plans in respect to our Temple, before the next meeting of the Maryland Association.
- 1869, The New-Jerusalem Magazine (volume 41, page 36)
Further readingEdit
- ultimate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- ultimate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
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FinnishEdit
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NounEdit
ultimate
- ultimate frisbee (game)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection of ultimate (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | ultimate | ultimatet | |
genitive | ultimaten | ultimatejen | |
partitive | ultimatea | ultimateja | |
illative | ultimateen | ultimateihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | ultimate | ultimatet | |
accusative | nom. | ultimate | ultimatet |
gen. | ultimaten | ||
genitive | ultimaten | ultimatejen ultimateinrare | |
partitive | ultimatea | ultimateja | |
inessive | ultimatessa | ultimateissa | |
elative | ultimatesta | ultimateista | |
illative | ultimateen | ultimateihin | |
adessive | ultimatella | ultimateilla | |
ablative | ultimatelta | ultimateilta | |
allative | ultimatelle | ultimateille | |
essive | ultimatena | ultimateina | |
translative | ultimateksi | ultimateiksi | |
instructive | — | ultimatein | |
abessive | ultimatetta | ultimateitta | |
comitative | — | ultimateineen |
Possessive forms of ultimate (type nalle) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | ultimateni | ultimatemme |
2nd person | ultimatesi | ultimatenne |
3rd person | ultimatensa |
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ItalianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
VerbEdit
ultimate
- inflection of ultimare:
Etymology 2Edit
ParticipleEdit
ultimate f pl
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LatinEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ul.tiˈmaː.te/, [ʊɫ̪t̪ɪˈmäːt̪ɛ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ul.tiˈma.te/, [ul̪t̪iˈmäːt̪e]
VerbEdit
ultimāte